"People change all the time, but it's usually very slowly, or very suddenly, and it's seldom of their own volition. Of the sudden kind, there has to be some kind of life-changing event." His eye twitches in what might have been a wink.

"I think dying counts."

“

"I'm ready."

”

"Then so am I...except for one or two small things. I will have the helicopter readied...meet me on the pad in five minutes?"

He shows Paul to the door.

A moment later, Paul can hear the APU's whine as it spins the helo turbines to operational speed.